Rajasthan cop arrested for violating woman inside police compound

A 54-year-old police sub-inspector (SI) posted at Kherli police station in Rajasthan’s Alwar district has been arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman who had came to file a harassment complaint against her husband.

The crime allegedly took place at the compound of the police station, inside the room where the accused sub-inspector lived, said the police. According to the police, the woman had contacted the SI identified as Bharat Singh on March 2 regarding a complaint against her husband.

The woman has alleged that the sub-inspector, who is the second-officer in-command at the police station, raped her for three days between March 2 and March 4.

“Back in 2018, she had filed a case of dowry harassment against her husband which was later settled,” Alwar superintendent of police said. “But now according to her, the woman’s husband wanted to give her divorce and she was not agreeing”, he added.

The woman reached the police station to lodge a complaint in this regard, when she was allegedly trapped and raped by the sub-inspector.

The police have lodged an FIR on Sunday under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and arrested the accused. The process of suspension and other disciplinary action against the cop has been initiated from the office of the inspector general.

On Sunday evening, Jaipur Range inspector general (IG) Hawa Singh Ghumaria and Alwar superintendent of police (SP) Tejaswani Gautam reached the police station to take stock of the situation after it came to light that officials there had dried to hush up the matter in order to protect the SI.